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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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e much better than if specialdesigns only were used, unless the street railway buysfrom but one manufacturer or all street railways adoptthe same construction. In order to give an idea of the field for standardiza-tion of layouts, the approximate number of branch-offsand connecting curves on the B. R. T. system is givenherewith: Single-track branch-offs, seventy-five; dou-ble-track branch-offs, 165; single-track connectingcurves, twenty; double-track connecting curves, fifty-five. Roadway Utility Motor Car A large cab so arranged that it does not limit thematerial carrying capacity is the feature of the roadwaymotor car which has recently been built at the shops ofthe Union Traction Company of Indiana, Anderson, Ind.This car is 36 ft. over all in length and 9 ft. wide, andthe two-compartment cab is elevated on two 15-in. chan-nels at an equivalent distance above the platform ofthe car. The cab is 12 ft. long over all and 7 ft. wide,with a glass partition between the motormans compart-
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VIEW OF ROADWAY UTILITY MOTOR CAR ment, which occupies 5V2 ft. of the length of the cab.and the compartment designed for the workmen andtheir tools. As shown in the accompanying illustration,the four exterior walls of the cab are formed practicallyof glass sashes and the cab frame, so that the motor-mans view is unobstructed in all directions. The glasspartition between the motormans compartment and thatof the workmen was provided as a safety precaution. While the size of the cab is practically one-third ofthe size of the car platform area, the hauling capacityof this utility car for poles, rails ana other long mate-rial is unrestricted, because the cab, as mentioned be-fore, is elevated 15 in. above the car-body platform.Stake pockets along the sides of the car are also usedto carry poles fastened in slings swung from stakes.The red and green markers and the electric headlightswere all recessed into the cab to conform to the standardmethod for installing this equipment on all the car

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